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@zoompooky wrote:
Cooldowns aren't the real issue it's the poor design. Having to stop everything to switch "profiles" is silly.
The real solution:
1) Drop consumables off the wheel and into a menu.
2) Use the top half of the wheel for weapons, and the bottom half for skills.
3) (Optionally) Swap the "scan" and "wheel" buttons on the controller.
This makes so much more sense, and is more fluid during combat. They could still have "profiles" if they wanted, where you could save your hotkey 3-skills and which 6 (8?) went on the wheel.
I take no credit for the above suggestion - I've simply played all the previous Mass Effects where they used THIS EXACT SETUP.
Oh hang on, when using a controller do you actually have to switch profiles through a menu or something? I'm using a mouse and keyboard so switching profiles is as simple as F1-F4, without the cooldown I could just switch em on the fly easily. I actually rarely find myself using the weapon/consumables wheel at all, probably have tons of elemental ammo building up.
@Zygon wrote:
zoompooky wrote: {snipped}Oh hang on, when using a controller do you actually have to switch profiles through a menu or something? I'm using a mouse and keyboard so switching profiles is as simple as F1-F4, without the cooldown I could just switch em on the fly easily. I actually rarely find myself using the weapon/consumables wheel at all, probably have tons of elemental ammo building up.
Yeah. On the xbox for example, the fastest "shortcut" method to switch profiles is to press "back" to bring up the wheel, then "x" to bring up the favorites. You then choose one with the d-pad and press A.
If you just want to change a profile not a favorite, that's "Start" -> Profiles -> Choose -> "A".
So on consoles, we're already having to pause and go into menus to change things - having the ability to put skills on the wheel would actually make things more fluid for us in addition to giving us more options in combat.
I'd wager that most folks on consoles just pick their favorite 2-3 skills and use them throughout gameplay.
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